tiser

French

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *tītiāre, from Latin tītiāre (“firebrand”) (whence tison). Compare the related term attiser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.ze/

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Verb

tiser

1. (transitive) to stoke (a furnace, etc.)
2. (transitive, slang) to booze, hit the bottle

Conjugation

Conjugation of tiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tisant /ti.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tisé /ti.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tise /tiz/	tises /tiz/	tise /tiz/	tisons /ti.zɔ̃/	tisez /ti.ze/	tisent /tiz/
	imperfect	tisais /ti.zɛ/	tisais /ti.zɛ/	tisait /ti.zɛ/	tisions /ti.zjɔ̃/	tisiez /ti.zje/	tisaient /ti.zɛ/
	past historic2	tisai /ti.ze/	tisas /ti.za/	tisa /ti.za/	tisâmes /ti.zam/	tisâtes /ti.zat/	tisèrent /ti.zɛʁ/
	future	tiserai /tiz.ʁe/	tiseras /tiz.ʁa/	tisera /tiz.ʁa/	tiserons /tiz.ʁɔ̃/	tiserez /tiz.ʁe/	tiseront /tiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tiserais /tiz.ʁɛ/	tiserais /tiz.ʁɛ/	tiserait /tiz.ʁɛ/	tiserions /ti.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	tiseriez /ti.zə.ʁje/	tiseraient /tiz.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	tise /tiz/	tises /tiz/	tise /tiz/	tisions /ti.zjɔ̃/	tisiez /ti.zje/	tisent /tiz/
	imperfect2	tisasse /ti.zas/	tisasses /ti.zas/	tisât /ti.za/	tisassions /ti.za.sjɔ̃/	tisassiez /ti.za.sje/	tisassent /ti.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tise /tiz/	—	tisons /ti.zɔ̃/	tisez /ti.ze/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).